Joe Rogan says oblique kicks are 'going to be made illegal' as Paddy Pimblett disagrees

Rogan told Pimblett on his podcast he thinks the change is being announced now. Pimblett said fighters should just have to deal with the kick.

Joe Rogan believes the oblique kick is about to be banned in MMA, and his guest Paddy Pimblett does not want it to be.

"It is going to be made illegal," Rogan told Paddy Pimblett on JRE MMA Show #188, released on Wednesday. "I think we're announcing it right now ... I don't think people know, but it's going to be made illegal."

Pimblett did not agree. "I don't think that should be made illegal," he said. Asked by Rogan whether it should just be a thing fighters have to deal with, Pimblett replied: "Yeah, just like everything else when you have a fight."

Rogan said he agreed in part but pointed to the damage the kick can do. "The problem is it ends careers. It can change your career forever. Thiago Santos against Jon Jones, never the same again," he said.

The push to ban the kick to the knee followed UFC 331. California State Athletic Commission director Andy Foster wants it outlawed under the Unified Rules of MMA, and Dana White has said "we don't disagree". Bryce Mitchell has called talk of a ban "really, really stupid". Pimblett has argued for allowing soccer kicks and knees to the head of a grounded opponent.

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